[NTLK] Best way to get pictures into an eMate?

[Chris Lindley]

Hi Alan,

Nice project! 

By coincidence I’m also thinking about how to do exactly the same except for #Marchintosh and #Globaltalk.

I mention because you are also involved in #Globaltalk!

I thought about creating a calling card and printing it to printers over Globaltalk from my eMate. Seemed like a cool project!

(for those who do not know Globaltalk is a bunch of AppleTalk connected Macs, file shares and printers all linked together! It’s up and running all year around but especially active during #MARCHintosh! There’s currently about 90 different Appletalk zones linked together).

https://marchintosh.com/globaltalk.html


Cheers
Chris

Chris Lindley (Ferg)
chris.lindley at scotgate.org
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> On 13 Mar 2026, at 12:48, Alan Fleming via NewtonTalk <newtontalk at newtontalk.net> wrote:
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> Hi there everyone. I have a little proect I’m thinking about doing, but don't’ quite know where to start in one aspect of it.
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> I’m thinking about producing a old school newsletter for an event I’m going to (in a very limited run) on an eMate and Stylewriter 2200 with battery pack - writing like it’s 1997! The issue I have is how to transfer in images I want to use. This will need to be done in two phases - before the event and hopefully *during* the event.
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> I’ve found a site that dithers photos down to 1-bit pretty successfully, so getting things the right look and the right size is easy enough.  But how can I transfer in (say) GIFs both beforehand jbut also at the event itself - where I won’t have a Mac with me? I will however have access to a web server. And Bluetooth OBEX.
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> How would people recommend I proceed?
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> Many thanks in advance for your ideas,
> 
> Alan Fleming.
> https://alanfleming.org <https://alanfleming.org/>
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